HIST M116C

Main Course

Power and Imagination in Byzantium

Description

(Same as Classics M170C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 116A, 116B. Designed for juniors/seniors. Study of relations of authority and intelligentsia in highly centralized Byzantine Empire. Topics include criticism of emperor, iconoclasm, intellectual freedom, attempts at reform. Letter grading.

Prerequisites

• Required: HIST 116A

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• Required: HIST 116B

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